作者： 李家亮（中国民主党党员）

编辑：李晶 校对：熊辩 翻译：周敏

张雪峰去世了，确切地说，中国的“张雪峰现象”和张雪峰时代也一起在走向消亡。这位1984年出生在中国东北的网络爆红考研和高考志愿填报指导老师，教育博主，以其风格直白、观点犀利走红网络，在中国的学生和家长群中影响很大，他的去世突然而仓促，很多中国家长和学生错愕而哀伤，他们自发组成送葬队伍，哪怕相隔千里的人也会用外卖的方式送上一束花，杭州的街头，人们为了张雪峰而落泪。

那些送行的队伍是在送走张雪峰，也是在送走一个张雪峰时代，这个时代将永远尘封在中国的历史里，和历史一起埋葬。

是的，张雪峰时代结束了！

什么是张雪峰时代呢？张雪峰是1984年生人，他在2000年左右参加高考，正好赶上中国真正意义上的第一次开放国门，迎接世界——2001年12月11日，中国加入了世界贸易组织（WTO），加入WTO之后中国迎来了史无前例的爆发式经济增长，外贸尤其快速增长，成为了“世界工厂”、吸引了大量外资同时带来了大量的国际先进管理理念和模式；制造业和出口产业爆发，整个中国经济呈现一片前所未有的蓬勃之态。时值政治上是中国独裁体制中相对宽松的胡温时代，两厢结合中国人从上至下有了一种前所未有的畅快淋漓，对于未来充满希望，那个年代的人们相信未来会越来越好，相信爱拼才会赢，相信明天更美好！张雪峰就是和其他八零后一起赶上了那个好时代，那个有希望的时代，他们虽然没有像70后一样毕业了包分配，但是却可以迎着上升的中国经济实现那个只要努力学习考上好大学就可以顺利找到自己心仪的机会，留在一线城市的梦想——很多70后期和80后凭借努力上好大学就可以实现从农村到一线城市精英的阶层跨越。这一代人也是最相信吃得苦中苦方为人上人、爱拼才会赢的那一代，这就是张雪峰时代，或者“张雪峰现象”时代。

如今张雪峰去世了，“张雪峰现象”时代也迎来了尾声，确切地说，“张雪峰现象”比张雪峰更早地迎来了生命的枯萎期。自习近平上台以来，不断推动中国政治走向更专制的集权化（如修改宪法避免自己下台），经济上不断倒行逆施，不断和美日等主流国家产生贸易摩擦，越来越多的国家指责中国未完全遵守某些规则，不断地破坏WTO运行机制。中国虽然没有正式退出WTO，但是中国和WTO的关系已经名存实亡了，尤其近年来，大量的外资诸如SAS Institute、IBM、Amazon、Canon、Panasonic、Suzuki、Honda、Toyota、Old Navy、GAP、Carrefour、John Deere、 Kato Works等都全部或大部分撤离中国搬到经商环境更为宽松的东南亚国家。习近平一顿骚操作：减少民营加强央国企使得民营经济直接凋零。与此同时，中国经济支柱房地产行业全面崩盘，配套外资的制造业大面积关停等，中国经济陷入了中共执政以来的又一次冰点，这种冰点带来的是机会萎缩和消失，所以大量的毕业生找不到工作，跻身去送外卖、跑滴滴。越来越多的年轻人毕业即失业，整个社会陷入了前所未有的内卷，卷学历，卷名校，留给普通人或者基本盘的机会越来越少，阶层跨越基本成为痴人说梦， 社会生存空间的天花板越压越低，人们被压得抬不起头，原本通过给基本盘社会标准答案和上升通道解析的张雪峰们也就逐步失去市场，和追随他们的基本盘们被永远封印在社会底层的夹缝里，于是张雪峰时代结束了！

张雪峰时代的结束，不单单是他个人的离世，更是中国经济的一个起伏回落回合的结束。这次结束，基本意味着接下来很多年，至少在习近平时代、乃至中共高压极权时代基本盘普通人再无跨越社会阶层的可能，学历改变命运的时代彻底成为了历史，张雪峰时代和张雪峰一样，和着普罗大众的梦想一起埋葬在这个春天。

在社会机会缺失，底层没有出路，没有安全感可言的当下，对张雪峰的崇拜像人们抓住的一根救命稻草，如今这个时代留给基本盘的机会消失了，张雪峰也恰在此刻离开了人世，令人倍感悲哀，人们前去悼念，送的是他，送的也是自己摇摇欲坠的人生。

是过于商业化；是过于考虑学历回报率而忽视人生的容错率；是把基本盘用一个干瘪的答案甩进原本开阔复杂的真实世界；是让基本盘丧失自我判断能力；是让基本盘更趋同了；是关闭了基本盘对于世界适应修行的宝贵能力；是为了制造焦虑赚的盆满钵满，还是确实帮助了一部分学生和家长找到人生方向，无论社会不同层面对张雪峰本人怎么评价，这都不重要，重要的是张雪峰现象背后真正掌控基本盘命运的政治制度和经济运行模式给予普通人的人生机会彻底关闭了，中国历史上真正意义上的开放阶段结束了，中国进入了又一次无尽的黑暗。

再见了，张雪峰；再见了，张雪峰时代；再见了，“中国基本盘”的向阳而生时代！

The era of Zhang Xuefeng, which is disappearing in China

Author: Li Jialiang (Member of the China Democracy Party)

Editor: Li Jing Proofreader: Xiong Bian Translator: Zhou Min

Zhang Xuefeng has passed away; or more accurately, China’s “Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon” and the Zhang Xuefeng era are moving toward extinction together. This online sensation, a postgraduate and college entrance examination volunteer guidance teacher and education blogger born in Northeast China in 1984, became popular on the internet for his straightforward style and sharp views, exerting a great influence on Chinese students and parents. His death was sudden and hasty; many Chinese parents and students were shocked and grieved. They spontaneously formed funeral processions, and even people thousands of miles away sent bouquets of flowers via delivery services. On the streets of Hangzhou, people wept for Zhang Xuefeng.

Those funeral processions were seeing off Zhang Xuefeng, but they were also seeing off a Zhang Xuefeng era. This era will be forever sealed in Chinese history and buried along with it.

Yes, the Zhang Xuefeng era has ended!

What is the Zhang Xuefeng era? Zhang Xuefeng was born in 1984. He took the college entrance examination around 2000, just in time for China’s first true opening of its doors to welcome the world—on December 11, 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). After joining the WTO, China ushered in unprecedented explosive economic growth. Foreign trade especially grew rapidly, as China became the “world factory,” attracting a large amount of foreign investment while bringing in numerous advanced international management concepts and models. Manufacturing and export industries exploded, and the entire Chinese economy presented an unprecedentedly vigorous state. At that time, politically, it was the Hu-Wen era, which was relatively relaxed within the Chinese autocratic system. Combining these two aspects, Chinese people from top to bottom experienced an unprecedented sense of smoothness and directness, full of hope for the future. People of that era believed the future would get better and better, believed that “to win, you must dare to fight,” and believed that tomorrow would be even more beautiful! Zhang Xuefeng, along with other post-80s generations, caught that good era, that hopeful era. Although they did not have jobs assigned upon graduation like the post-70s generation, they could follow the rising Chinese economy to realize the dream of finding their desired opportunities and staying in first-tier cities just by studying hard and getting into a good university—many late post-70s and post-80s relied on the effort of attending good universities to achieve the social class leap from rural areas to first-tier city elites. This generation is also the one that most believes that “only by enduring the most bitter hardships can one become a superior person” and “to win, you must dare to fight.” This is the Zhang Xuefeng era, or the era of the “Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon.”

Now Zhang Xuefeng has passed away, and the “Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon” era has also reached its end. To be precise, the “Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon” reached its period of life-withering earlier than Zhang Xuefeng himself. Since Xi Jinping came to power, he has continuously pushed Chinese politics toward more autocratic centralization (such as amending the constitution to avoid stepping down). Economically, he has continuously acted perversely, constantly creating trade frictions with mainstream countries such as the United States and Japan. More and more countries accuse China of failing to fully comply with certain rules and continuously undermining the WTO operating mechanism. Although China has not formally withdrawn from the WTO, the relationship between China and the WTO exists in name only. Especially in recent years, a large amount of foreign capital, such as SAS Institute, IBM, Amazon, Canon, Panasonic, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Old Navy, GAP, Carrefour, John Deere, Kato Works, etc., have all or mostly withdrawn from China and moved to Southeast Asian countries with more relaxed business environments. Xi Jinping’s series of reckless operations—reducing the private sector and strengthening central state-owned enterprises—caused the private economy to directly wither. At the same time, the real estate industry, a pillar of the Chinese economy, has completely collapsed, and the manufacturing industries supporting foreign investment have shut down on a large scale. The Chinese economy has fallen into another freezing point since the CCP took power. This freezing point brings about the shrinking and disappearance of opportunities, so a large number of graduates cannot find jobs and squeeze into delivering food or driving for Didi. More and more young people are unemployed upon graduation. The entire society has fallen into unprecedented “involution” (neijuan)—competing over degrees, competing over prestigious schools. Fewer and fewer opportunities are left for ordinary people or the “basic pool” (the masses). Social class leaping has basically become a pipe dream. The ceiling of social survival space is being pressed lower and lower, and people are being pressed so hard they cannot lift their heads. The “Zhang Xuefengs,” who originally provided standard answers and upward path analyses for the “basic pool” of society, have gradually lost their market and, along with the “basic pool” that followed them, are forever sealed in the cracks of the bottom of society. Thus, the Zhang Xuefeng era has ended!

The end of the Zhang Xuefeng era is not just the passing of him as an individual, but the end of a cycle of ups and downs in the Chinese economy. This ending basically means that for many years to come—at least in the Xi Jinping era and even the era of high-pressure CCP totalitarianism—it will be impossible for ordinary people in the “basic pool” to leap across social classes again. The era of education changing destiny has completely become history. The Zhang Xuefeng era, like Zhang Xuefeng himself, is buried this spring along with the dreams of the general public.

At a time when social opportunities are missing, the bottom has no way out, and there is no sense of security to speak of, the worship of Zhang Xuefeng is like a life-saving straw that people grab. Now that the opportunities left for the “basic pool” by this era have disappeared, Zhang Xuefeng has also left the world at this very moment, which makes people feel doubly sorrowful. People go to mourn; they are seeing off him, and they are also seeing off their own precarious lives.

Whether it was being too commercialized; whether it was over-considering the rate of return on education while ignoring the tolerance for error in life; whether it was throwing the “basic pool” into the originally open and complex real world with a shriveled answer; whether it was making the “basic pool” lose the ability for self-judgment; whether it was making the “basic pool” more homogenized; whether it was closing off the precious ability of the “basic pool” to practice adaptation to the world; whether it was for the sake of creating anxiety to make a fortune, or indeed helping some students and parents find a life direction—no matter how different levels of society evaluate Zhang Xuefeng himself, it is not important. What is important is that the political system and economic operation mode behind the Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon, which truly control the destiny of the “basic pool,” have completely closed the life opportunities for ordinary people. The truly meaningful stage of openness in Chinese history has ended, and China has entered another period of endless darkness.

Goodbye, Zhang Xuefeng; goodbye, Zhang Xuefeng era; goodbye, the era of “China’s basic pool” growing toward the sun!